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Events on the 13th of March in history

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13 Mar 0483 St Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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13 Mar 0624 Battle of Badr: a key battle between Muhammad's army – the new followers of Islam and the Quraysh of Mecca. The Muslims won this battle, known as the turning point of Islam, which took place in the Hejaz region of western Arabia.
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13 Mar 0874 The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople.
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13 Mar 1138 Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
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13 Mar 1138 German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned
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13 Mar 1519 Cortez lands in M
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13 Mar 1560 Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli
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13 Mar 1564 Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels
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13 Mar 1567 Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger
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13 Mar 1569 Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots
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13 Mar 1591 Battle of Tondibi: In Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi dynasty led by Judar Pasha defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one.
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13 Mar 1591 Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai
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13 Mar 1634 Acad
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13 Mar 1639 Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard.
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13 Mar 1639 Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard
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13 Mar 1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam
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13 Mar 1677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000
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13 Mar 1697 Nojpetén, capital of the Itza Maya kingdom, fell to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
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13 Mar 1735 1st US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany
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13 Mar 1759 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
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13 Mar 1772 Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Calotti" premieres in Brunswick
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13 Mar 1781 Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus)
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13 Mar 1781 William Herschel discovers Uranus.
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13 Mar 1790 John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia
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13 Mar 1797 Cherubini's opera "Med
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13 Mar 1809 Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.
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13 Mar 1835 Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andes crossing
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13 Mar 1845 Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
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13 Mar 1846 Friedrich Hebbel's "Maria Magdalena" premieres in K
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13 Mar 1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly
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13 Mar 1861 Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers
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13 Mar 1862 American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
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13 Mar 1865 American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
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13 Mar 1865 US Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service
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13 Mar 1868 Senate begins President Andrew Johnson impeachment trial
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13 Mar 1869 Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law
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13 Mar 1878 Oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match
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13 Mar 1881 Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
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13 Mar 1884 The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
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13 Mar 1884 Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins
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13 Mar 1884 US adopts Standard Time
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13 Mar 1887 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs
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13 Mar 1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 rages
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13 Mar 1894 J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate
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13 Mar 1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die
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13 Mar 1897 San Diego State University is founded.
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13 Mar 1900 Second Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
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13 Mar 1900 British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange-Free state
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13 Mar 1904 Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated
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13 Mar 1911 Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady" premieres in New York NY
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13 Mar 1911 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (Ontario), 7-4
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13 Mar 1912 Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (NB) in 2 games
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13 Mar 1912 Stanley Cup: Qu
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13 Mar 1913 Kansas legislature approves censorship of motion pictures
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13 Mar 1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit
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13 Mar 1918 1st NHL championship: Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto Arenas, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set
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13 Mar 1918 1st NHL Championship: Montr
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13 Mar 1918 American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms
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13 Mar 1920 The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
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13 Mar 1920 Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails
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13 Mar 1921 Mongolia is proclaimed an independent monarchy, ruled by Russian military officer Roman von Ungern-Sternberg as a dictator.
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13 Mar 1921 Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China
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13 Mar 1922 George Bernard Shaws "Back to Methusaleh V, " premieres in New York City
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13 Mar 1922 NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St Pats, 5 to 4, in 2 games
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13 Mar 1922 WRR-AM in Dallas TX begins radio transmissions
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13 Mar 1923 Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (New York NY)
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13 Mar 1924 German Republic day
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13 Mar 1925 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games
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13 Mar 1925 Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution
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13 Mar 1928 450 die in St. Francisquito Valley Dam burst (California)
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13 Mar 1928 Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers" premieres in New York NY
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13 Mar 1929 Bradman scores 123 Australia vs England at MCG, his 2nd Test Cricket ton
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13 Mar 1930 The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
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13 Mar 1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
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13 Mar 1933 Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday".
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13 Mar 1933 Banks reopen
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13 Mar 1933 Josef G
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13 Mar 1935 Driving tests introduced in Great Britain
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13 Mar 1938 World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
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13 Mar 1938 Anschlu
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13 Mar 1940 The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends.
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13 Mar 1940 Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische
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13 Mar 1941 A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand)
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13 Mar 1942 Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
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13 Mar 1943 Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata)
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13 Mar 1943 The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
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13 Mar 1943 Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight
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13 Mar 1943 Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4: 9.6)
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13 Mar 1944 USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio government
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13 Mar 1945 Queen Wilhelmina returns to the Netherlands
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13 Mar 1945 Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman
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13 Mar 1947 "Brigadoon" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 581 performances
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13 Mar 1947 19th Academy Awards - "Best Years of Lives, " De Havilland, March win
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13 Mar 1947 19th Academy Awards: "Best Years of Our Lives", Frederic March, Olivia de Havilland win
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13 Mar 1948 10th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Baylor 58-42
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13 Mar 1949 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
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13 Mar 1949 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button
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13 Mar 1950 General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)
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13 Mar 1951 2nd Dutch government of Drees forms
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13 Mar 1951 Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany
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13 Mar 1954 First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp unleashed a massive artillery barrage on the French to begin the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, the climactic battle in the First Indochina War.
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13 Mar 1954 Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron
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13 Mar 1954 Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu
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13 Mar 1955 Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal
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13 Mar 1956 New Zealand bowl out West Indies for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win
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13 Mar 1957 Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista.
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13 Mar 1957 Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba
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13 Mar 1958 Government troops land in Sumatra Indonesia
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13 Mar 1960 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
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13 Mar 1960 NFL's Chicago Cardinals move to St Louis
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13 Mar 1960 White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number
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13 Mar 1961 Landslide in the USSR, kills 145
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13 Mar 1961 Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes president of US Communist Party
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13 Mar 1961 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title
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13 Mar 1961 JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress
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13 Mar 1961 Old type, black & white notes cease to be legal tender
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13 Mar 1961 Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37)
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13 Mar 1962 Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position.
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13 Mar 1962 Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty
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13 Mar 1963 Police in Phoenix, Arizona arrest Ernesto Miranda and charge him with kidnap and rape. His conviction is ultimately set aside by the United States Supreme Court in Miranda v. Arizona
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13 Mar 1963 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska
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13 Mar 1963 Hindemith & Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner" premieres in New York NY
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13 Mar 1963 Indonesia & Netherlands recover diplomatic relations
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13 Mar 1964 American Kitty Genovese is murdered, the media erroneously report that many of the victim's neighbours witnessed the crime yet failed to help, prompting research into the bystander effect.
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13 Mar 1964 Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack
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13 Mar 1965 Beatles' "Eight Days a Week" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
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13 Mar 1965 Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds
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13 Mar 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational
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13 Mar 1967 Congo sentences ex-premier Mo
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13 Mar 1967 Robert Anderson's "You Know I Can't Hear You When The Water's Running" premieres in New York NY
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13 Mar 1968 Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK
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13 Mar 1968 Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK
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13 Mar 1969 Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
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13 Mar 1969 Apollo 9 returns to Earth
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13 Mar 1970 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam
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13 Mar 1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
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13 Mar 1970 San Francisco city employees begin 4-day strike
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13 Mar 1971 Live at Fillmore East recorded
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13 Mar 1973 "Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances
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13 Mar 1973 Minskoff Theater opens at 200 W 45th St, New York City
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13 Mar 1973 Syria adopts constitution
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13 Mar 1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris France
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13 Mar 1974 Glenn Turner scores twin tons for New Zealand's 1st win against Australia
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13 Mar 1975 Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year" premieres in New York NY
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13 Mar 1977 Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test
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13 Mar 1978 Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house
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13 Mar 1979 The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'état in Grenada.
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13 Mar 1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created
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13 Mar 1979 Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
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13 Mar 1979 Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
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13 Mar 1980 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1:13.60)
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13 Mar 1980 Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
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13 Mar 1981 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca
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13 Mar 1981 NCAA St Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul
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13 Mar 1982 Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship
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13 Mar 1982 Ice Dance Championship at Copenhagen won by Torvill and Dean (GRB)
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13 Mar 1982 Ice Pairs Championship at Copenhagen won by Baess and Thierbach (GDR)
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13 Mar 1982 World Ice Dance Championship in Copenhagen won by Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean (Great Britain)
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13 Mar 1982 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Copenhagen won by Sabine Baess & Tassilo Thierbach (German Democratic Republic)
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13 Mar 1982 World Ladies Figure Skate Championship in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA)
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13 Mar 1982 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
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13 Mar 1983 "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 770 performances
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13 Mar 1983 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14
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13 Mar 1984 Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
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13 Mar 1984 Western Australia beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
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13 Mar 1985 The Kenilworth Road riot takes place at an association football match at Kenilworth Road in Luton, England with disturbances before, during and after an F.A. Cup 6th Round tie between Luton Town F.C. and Millwall F.C..
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13 Mar 1985 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
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13 Mar 1985 Michael Secrest (US) begins 24 hour ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
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13 Mar 1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
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13 Mar 1986 Space probe Giotto encounters Halley's Comet
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13 Mar 1987 Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS)
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13 Mar 1987 John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering
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13 Mar 1987 Washington Capitals score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 minutes & 3 seconds
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13 Mar 1988 The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
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13 Mar 1988 14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby win
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13 Mar 1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
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13 Mar 1989 FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US
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13 Mar 1989 US space shuttle STS-29 launched
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13 Mar 1990 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
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13 Mar 1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines and cleanup of Valdez oil spill
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13 Mar 1991 The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
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13 Mar 1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill (Prince William Sound, Alaska)
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13 Mar 1992 An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
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13 Mar 1992 570 die in a Turkish earthquake
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13 Mar 1992 FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12)
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13 Mar 1992 Martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit
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13 Mar 1993 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US
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13 Mar 1994 Oil tank / airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire / 15+ killed)
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13 Mar 1994 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right FP
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13 Mar 1994 Cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)
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13 Mar 1994 Donna Andrews wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
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13 Mar 1994 President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed
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13 Mar 1995 9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win
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13 Mar 1995 Anti fascist Kazakhstan anti-parliament forms
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13 Mar 1995 Hungarian Forint devalued 9%
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13 Mar 1995 Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
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13 Mar 1996 Dunblane school massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 primary school children and one teacher are shot dead by spree killer Thomas Watt Hamilton who then commits suicide.
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13 Mar 1996 Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play
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13 Mar 1996 Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher & himself
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13 Mar 1997 The Phoenix Lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
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13 Mar 1997 India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
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13 Mar 2003 Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human had been found in Italy.
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13 Mar 2008 Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000 per ounce for the first time.
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13 Mar 2012 At least 28 people are killed in a bus crash in a motorway tunnel near the town of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais.
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13 Mar 2013 Pope Francis is elected, in the papal conclave, as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
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